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Oracle Exadata and IBM PureData System for Analytics compared

With today’s data explosion, many organizations are grappling with the same fundamental problem: How to choose the best technology to extract value from the growing volumes of data created daily in their operations. Wishing to exploit data at lower costs of operation and ownership, many organizations are turning to systems designed to query and analyze large volumes of data.

This white paper asks you to put aside old notions of how a database management system should work and be open to a more simplistic view. Read on to examine the differences between processing online transactions and processing queries and analyses in a data warehouse.

And compare IBM’s PureData System to Oracle’s Exadata to weigh the benefits and drawbacks of both systems.